Ban Pha Wiang School in Sukhothai’s Sri Satchanalai district has elaborated after a social media controversy over its plans to hire a temporary kindergarten-level teacher at Bt4,000 a month from donated money due to the permanent teacher needing to take an absence.

As the manhunt continued on Sunday for two drug inmates who escaped from a provincial prison in Sukhothai on Saturday evening, the Corrections Department chief has given the prison director 48 hours to re-capture them or face a transfer.

The Sukhothai Shanghai, a contemporary lifestyle hotel under HKR International’s The Sukhothai Hotels & Resorts brand, has now opened in the city’s Jing’an district, marking a new chapter for the hotel group in their first foray into the Mainland China’s hospitality scene.